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Online reading activities for all levels. Improve your reading ability using this fun, interactive, educational tool in school or at home.

These are flipped TED lessons--a great resource for educators. Each video is professionally animated and narrated. Best of all, you can flip any YouTube video using TED Ed.

Absolutely love this website. TEDEd allows educators to create and share lessons built around YouTube videos. The embedded lesson creator allows users to 1) FIND video content through an integrated search panel, 2) SELECT a video or lesson to be customized, and 3) FLIP a video by adding questions, notes, and content. The TEDEd library is continually growing and is searchable and browsable by series and subject. Grades K-12. Tip: The best lessons are curated by volunteer teachers and TEDEd and compiled under the Best Flips tab. If you're looking for teaching inspiration, look no further!

This is a great collection of videos and lesson plans for educational use. The videos are searchable by subject.

IVONA TTS is a great way for struggling readers to get a little boost in their reading. Students can copy and paste words into the text box and hear it come to life.

Snagit's image and video capture is powerful, but not complex. You're in control of everything you capture. From a drop down menu to a scrolling webpage and everything in-between. Choose whether you want to capture an image or video after you make your selection, and resize the capture area right down to the pixel.

This site walks you through each step on how to upload a video to YouTube and post it on a website. This video is very useful because many videos are uploaded to Youtube and then can be embedded into a website for use.

Teach your students to listen with the power of public radio! Free lessons and engaging real world stories for your classroom.

Graphing Stories: Short video stories that help students learn to graph on a plane.

A simple video screen recorder for Chrome, Chromebooks and Chromeboxes. The free version allows users to record up to a 10 minute screencast. Screencasts can be saved in either Google Drive or YouTube.

Choose from a wide variety of shapes to create diagrams and charts. Free from Google. This tool is useful for students and teachers alike.

The Google Docs platform not only embraces portability by enabling you to create, update and store documents online, it also provides a way for you to publish documents to your website or blog. ...

This website gives a step by step explanation of how to embed a Google Document and how to resize the embedded image. There is a default size when embedding an image and most of the time users want to enlarge that image.

This website is a great resource to be creative with Google Sheets, explains how to create tables, charts, images, etc. This makes a presentation more engaging and visually appealing.

Do you want a way for your students to socialize in a nerd-tastic way? Goodreads allows students to dive deeper into the world of reading.

PenPalNews allows people to create an anonymous pen pal relationship in order to obtain feedback from someone or just to chat. Students can get feedback on opinions or can complete research from other areas of the world.

Create custom maps to share and publish online with Google My Maps. You can make maps that show different kinds of information.

Another great alternative to powerpoint and slideshow presentations that can be a bit uninteresting. This is a free online tool that can be used to create exciting presentations. Instead of being based on slides, the presenter is able to create a concept-map of ideas/images/text/pdf docs/etc in order to visually engage his/her audience.

Presentations with zooming animations.

Engaging presentation tool that allows a close up view as well as animated transitions.

With 360-degree and other imagery, walk around the Sphinx, enter the Great Pyramid, visit tombs and temples, and more. Want to walk around the Sphinx? Clamber inside the Great Pyramid of Giza and seek out the pharaoh's burial chamber? Visit the magnificent tombs and temples of ancient Thebes?

Marbleslides are great activities that allow students to practice applying their knowledge of equations. They must create graphs that allow a launched purple ball to collect all the yellow stars.

This video is an excellent tool for teachers to learn how to embed a voice thread into a google site. It is much more efficient and easier for the user if the voice thread is embedded and not as a link.

Share your infographic with the world. Make high resolution prints or share it online. Link, embed, email or share it on social media. The possibilities are endless with this awesome Infographic creator.

Our designers work hard so you don't have to. In fact, you'll have access to a weekly updated library of over 500 professionally-designed templates. Finding a style that fits your message is easy. Edit text, fonts, and colors. Change as much or as little as you want to.

Hangouts bring conversations to life with photos, emoji, and even group video calls for free. Connect with friends across computers, Android, and Apple devices.